On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 02:51:35PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > Jeff Boyce wrote: > > Greetings - > > > > installed, is that currently if a user wants to change the password on > > their Windows workstation, I have to manually update that new password > on the > > Linux user account, and also manually change the Samba user account. > > Manually updating the password in three different locations is a minor > > headache that I would like to correct. I have been researching and > <snip> > You *could* do it with openldap, with the WinDoze boxen authenticating > through that. Now, I'll warn you that though it may have improved, a few > years ago, openldap was a nightmare to configure, the documentation > dreadull where it wasn't almost useless, and googling involved a *lot* of > searching. I have a page on openldap--though I don't cover it with samba--that is a cut above most of the documentation, in my not at all humble opinion--I fully agree with Mark that the vast majority of ldap documentation is horrendous. Some folks have found my page useful, so I'll offer it for consideration. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/ldap.html -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Cordelia: I do what I want to do. And I wear what I want to wear. And you know what, I'll date whoever the hell I want to date... no matter how lame he is.